Police: Drugs thrown out of moving car
Two Warwick men who tried to flee from police in a car with cocaine and heroin have been brought before Magistrates’ Court.Damon Morris, 21, denied possession of the drugs and possessing cocaine with intent to supply.Quincy Simmons, 18, told the court the drugs had not belonged to him.He pleaded “guilty, with an explanation” to both charges.The court heard that police attended a location near the Loughlands housing estate in Paget on February 7, at 11.10pm.They found two men in a car who were reported to be behaving suspiciously.The vehicle drove off as police arrived, turning onto Cataract Hill. The officers noticed a red-coloured object was thrown from the passenger window as they signalled the car to pull over. The two were apprehended at the dead end.Police retrieved a plastic salt bottle that had been thrown from the vehicle. It contained a clear plastic twist with “a rocklike substance, and a piece of a dark substance”, according to Crown counsel Kirsty-Ann Kiellor.It was later found to be three grams of cocaine, worth $900, and 0.9 grams of heroin, with an estimated street value of $2,640.Simmons told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner that he had driven Mr Morris’s car earlier that evening, and the drugs had been left behind by another passenger.“At about 9 o’clock, I took Morris’s car to the gas station. There was a guy called Sonny who asked for a lift to Loughlands so we went together.”Simmons said he dropped ‘Sonny’ at the housing estate and then drove to Ord Road.“I got back to Morris’s house and he had to dash town,” he said.The two then found the bottle on the floor of the car.“I said we might as well give it back to Sonny. We were right by Loughlands,” Simmons told the court.At Loughlands, they ran into police. “I panicked and threw the drugs out the window. And then we got arrested. The drugs were not mine,” Simmons said.Mr Warner ordered both men to return to court on July 18, and remanded Simmons into custody until that date.